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Onosma Taurica. Golden-Flowered 



Onosma. 



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Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Cor. campanulata : fauce pervia. Semina 4. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



ONOSMA taurica ; caulibus (implicibus e bafi multicipe, 

 foliis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque albo-pilofis, 

 fruftibus erectis. Marfch. v. Biberjlein Terek it. 

 Kur. p. 138. 



ONOSMA taurica. Pallas Tableau de la Tauride y p. 47. 

 Annals of Bot. v. 2. p. 



This plant is not entirely new in our gardens, where it has 

 generally paffed for Onosma echioides of Linnaeus, a much 

 larger plant, greatly branched, clothed with very long yeilowifh 

 hairs, and having entirely the habit of Echium vulgare. We 

 at firft fufpe&ed it to be the Onosma fimplicijfima ; but, from 

 the confuiion in the fynonymy and the want of precifion in the 

 fpecific charaQers, it was not eafy to determine the queftion. 

 But fortunately in our fearch we met with fpecimens exactly 

 correfponding with our plant, in a collection fent from Cau- 

 cafus to Sir Joseph Banks, by Count Muschin Puschkin, 

 under the name which we have adopted ; and with the afliftance 

 of our kind friend Mr. Charles Konig, we are enabled to give 

 the fpecific characler as drawn up by Marfchal v. Biberstein, 

 by whom we are informed that it is frequent in the open hills 

 of Tauria, about KarafTubafac and Sympheropolis, and alfo in 

 the mountains of the Cafpian Caucafus, flowering in May and 

 June. A careful examination of the dried fpecimens left us 

 almoft without doubt, vet the obfervation of this author, that 

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